The Watch - Homeland Defense

Mexico extradited 29 Mexican cartel members to the U.S. in February 2025 in a “good faith” gesture. REUTERS REUTERS Mexico handed over major figures in the country’s criminal underworld to U.S. authorities in February 2025 as part of a surprise extradition of nearly 30 jailed convicts or others accused of ties to violent drug cartels. Some are…

Mexican Marines stand guard at a pier in Baja California in this undated photo from the Mexican government. In February 2025, 10 U.S. Army Green Berets traveled…

United States Soldiers scan their sector at a known crossing point of the Rio Grande in Brownsville, Texas, on February 25, 2025. U.S. Northern Command is…

Migrants are escorted by officers of the Turks and Caicos Marine Branch and the Fisheries and Marine Resources Management on February 17, 2025. ROYAL TURNKS AND…

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) icebreaker, Xuelong 2, in Antarctica in December 2024. The CCP has sought to challenge the U.S. and its allies in the Arctic…

U.S. Embassy Charge d’Affaires Kimberly Furnish, center, visits local schools on Andros Island in the Bahamas in February 2025. Furnish cautioned the Bahamas…

The crew of an Alaska Army National Guard CH-47F Chinook assigned to 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 211th Aviation Regiment, at the Whitehorse airport,…

Canadian and U.S. warplanes intercepted Russian bombers near Alaska in February 2025. Such intercepts, like the 2020 incident pictured, are routine, the command…

Royal Canadian Navy officer Vice Adm. Angus Topshee, commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, welcomes guests to the B Jetty opening ceremony on February 5, 2025.…